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Wave
Wave ~ Sonali Deraniyagala A woman, her husband, their kids, her parents, her friend and her friend’s mom are vacationing in Sri Lanka, where she grew up, in late December, 2004. Looking from the hotel window, she can see that something is wrong with the ocean. At first she is curious, then she realizes that something is very wrong, and she and her husband grab the kids and start to run. They run past her parents’ hotel room without stopping to warn them, and they make it to a jeep, where they pile in and drive for safety. The tsunami wave overtakes their car and they are separated. She is…
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Salmon Farro Bowl with Honey Mustard Dressing
For NaBloPoMo, I may decide to do some kind of ‘getting to know you’ post soon for new readers, but this is not that post. Instead, this is a very lazy post, a recipe for a delicious meal we recently enjoyed. It seems pretty adaptable. Don’t like salmon? Sub in another fish, chicken, or even tofu. Don’t like mustard? Try a dressing you do like. Want to add tomatoes, like I did? Go for it. We really enjoyed this meal, it will be making a reappearance soon. Original recipe here. Salmon and Farro Bowl with Honey Mustard Dressing Ingredients Directions Preheat oven to 425°F. Bring water, farro, and 1 teaspoon…
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Mixing it Up
Earlier this year, I had a bone density scan, and was diagnosed with osteopenia. Not a shock, my grandmother broke her hip at 40, and I think I had osteopenia the first time I had a bone density scan almost 20 years ago. But now that I’m approaching 60, I’m finally getting a bit more serious about things I should have been doing for the last 20 – 30 years. Mostly that means being consistent about strength training. Last November, I started doing Caroline Girvan trainings 5 days a week. I’ve chosen the 15 to 20 minute workouts, and mostly I used 5 lb hand weights, though I have increased…
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Friday Randomness
Happy Halloween! The decorations at this house were not nearly as charming as skeletons playing banjos or ghosts on swings, but wow, it did scare me a bit when I came around the corner and saw it. Creepy. I don’t have a lot of randomness this week, but I did take some pictures. I went to the farmers’ market last weekend and got some berries and tomatoes. And apparently took pictures only of things I did not buy. I went to the weekly protest, which was much smaller than the big No Kings protest, but still about 125 – 150 people. Inspired by Diane’s post in which she has been…
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Wordless Wednesday
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Dinners Last Week
Suzanne often posts about her meal plan for the week, with helpful links to recipes. I am generally not that organized, but we did have some yummy food last week, and I’m here to tell you about it. Sunday, Ted made a truly delicious Salade Nicoise (link is to a recipe I posted a few years ago, and the picture looks a lot more like Ted’s), with tomatoes, lettuce, potatoes, fresh tuna, eggs, and green beans from the Farmers’ Market. I think the only things we had to buy at the grocery store were avocado and Sauvignon blanc, as we already had olives at home. I didn’t take a picture…
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Friday Randomness
Another Friday, another brain dump of randomness. Look at the crowd in the drone photo taken of our local No Kings rally last Saturday! The crowd is estimated to be between 8,500 – 10,000, which is amazing, especially as there were even larger crowds in Oakland and San Francisco, and that our neighboring town had their own large crowd. I counted this as my CBWC walk for that day, though honestly I didn’t walk much because it was so crowded. I took pictures, but they sucked because of so many people, so here are some fun photos from the professional photographers that shared their photos on our local Indivisible FB…
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Wordless Wednesday
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Friday Randomness
You know, I’ve been thinking about NaBloPoMo this year. Some years I have a theme, like A – Z, or book reviews. Other years I wing it. And there have been plenty of times over the last 20 years that I haven’t participated at all. But these Friday Randomness posts are a whole lot of stupidness, and that is exactly the vibe I’m looking for this year. So I’ll be posting every day in November, and trying to read fellow NBPM blogs, and just putting my brain dump of stupidness into daily posts instead of combining them into one post a week. I plan to keep my posts short, too,…
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(Almost) Wordless Wednesday
Driving to San Francisco on Saturday, I had the opportunity to flip off the supremely ugly Salesforce Tower after reading that morning that CEO Marc Benioff suggested that the National Guard would be welcome as a police presence in San Francisco. He has since walked that back…a bit.
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Friday Randomness
Another week of books and movies and old recipes. Another week of random thoughts that I collect throughout the week to dump on you. Ready? Here we go. My Job is Hard A big part of my job is editing and formatting documents that go out to clients, and refer to changes in payroll and payroll reporting. The thing that sucks is that sometimes I see a grammatical error, and when I check the source, the source has that same error, so I have to leave it. Maybe if I had more power I could argue that our doc should be correct, even if the source isn’t, but since the…
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One Battle After Another
Saturday, Ted and I went to the theater to see the new Paul Thomas Anderson film, One Battle After Another. It starts off rough, especially if you had just been reading about the immigration raid in Chicago where children had their hands zip tied together and elderly people were thrown into U-Hauls. The film begins in 2009, with a left wing revolutionary group (the French 75) overwhelming a migrant detention center and freeing the immigrants that were being held there. Among the French 75 are “Ghetto” Pat Calhoun (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor). Perfidia ends up alone with the commanding officer, Steven Lockjaw (Sean Penn) and she…
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo ~ Taylor Jenkins Reid Monique Grant is an unknown aspiring journalist who is summoned by a famous actress of yesteryear to write her biography. Why has she summoned Grant for the job? We do not know. Hugo’s stipulation is that the book cannot be published until after her death, but as she has no heirs, all of the proceeds, which should be vast, will go to the author. From this beginning, we learn the story of famed actress Evelyn Hugo, of her 7 husbands and 1 great love. Evelyn starts out poor, her mom dies young, her dad is a creep. She escapes to…
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The Correspondent
The Correspondent ~ Virginia Evans The Correspondent is made up of letters to and from Sybil Van Antwerp, a 70 something year old retired lawyer, mother, and divorcee living in Maryland. She writes to her best friend, her neighbor down the street, her brother who lives in France, and her children. She writes letters to authors and other famous people. She writes to the teenaged son of a friend of hers, and to an employee at a genetic research company (think 23 and Me) They generally write back. The thought and depth that she puts into her letters, and how that consideration and depth is mirrored back in the letters…
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Fresh Summer Tomato Sauce
I had planned to make chicken soup for dinner the other night, but then Ted told me he had to work very late and wouldn’t be home. I decided to save the soup for the next night, and make pasta for Maya and myself. I had a few beautiful tomatoes from the farmers’ market, so I decided to make this pasta, which uses uncooked tomatoes. You combine the sauce ingredients early in the day, and let them sit on the counter until you are ready to eat, then you cook your pasta. (Observant readers may notice a phone in the pic above, with Mulder’s picture as my background. That’s my…
